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Enlarge ImageWeb publishing technology, such as this visual explanation of computer programming by Mike Bostock, could make e-books more interactive. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET...

Dreaming of living in a yellow submarine? Or an octopus' garden in the shade? Dubai-based Imperial Interiors will flood your bathroom (or bedroom or kitchen) in such a stylish way you won't need to call a plumber.The company offers 3D epoxy floor coverings that look like eerily realistic ocean scenes. Put a swimming swan in your rec room, a sandy beach in your bedroom, and completely freak out the cat with a shark or dolphin nosing its way around the living room. One image shown on Imperial's Facebook page shows a bedroom decorated so it looks as if enormous ottoman-size ice cubes are melting on the floor, just in case you want to wake up inside a Scotch on the rocks."Color, gloss and smooth...

Viv screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Alexa may soon face a new competitor: Viv.Viv -- created by the developers who crafted Siri and then sold it to Apple in 2010 -- represents the next step in voice assistants, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The new software, which is designed to handle tasks for you all on its own, will get a public demonstration at a tech conference Monday. For example, Viv's creators have used the software to order pizzas. When one of them starts placing the order, Viv asks if he would like toppings. Other engineers pipe in with their own requests. Viv asks more questions. In the end, four pizzas arrive with the rig...

RoadshowSedansTesla's 75-kWh Model S battery isn't new, it's been here the whole time*It might seem duplicitous, but it's actually a smart business move. Tesla Cheesy romantic movies tend to have some variation of the line, "You've been looking for love all over the place, when I've been right in front of you this whole time." Now, Tesla could very well say the same thing, as it's been advertising Model S sedans with 70-kWh battery capacity, despite the cars possessing 75-kWh batteries.While Tesla only aounced the 75...

Enlarge ImageArtist's concept of Planet Nine. Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) It's out there, in the dark. Something 10 times more massive than Earth and at least 10 times farther from the sun than Pluto, still within the solar system.If it's a planet, as gravitational evidence suggests, it just got even more mysterious. According to models run by astronomers at the Ha...

It's a cloudy day in San Francisco, and I'm standing on the coer of 9th Avenue and Kirkham trying not to be blown over by the biting wind. A man named Randy hops out of the rented Chrysler and opens the minivan's trunk to reveal two large art portfolios, both containing four top-of-the-line Samsung Galaxy handsets.No, this isn't a shady Craigslist deal, or some undercover operation with the cops. Instead, I'm joining RootMetrics -- specifically, a scouter (the aforementioned Randy Dosher) and the company's vice president Julie Dey -- as they ride around the city independently testing the country's wireless carrier networks. (Back in 2013, CNET's Jessica Dolcourt joined them on a similar ride...

[embedded content] Strap on your enormous shoulder pads and fire up your chainswords (that's a chainsaw/sword hybrid, if you didn't know), because Dawn of War III is coming.It's the third standalone title in the Dawn of War series, and developer Relic has partnered with Sega this time around. The real-time strategy game will feature Space Marines (space knights), Eldar (space elves) and Orks (space orcs), all drawn from Games Workshop's popular Warhammer 40k sci-fi universe.The aouncement trailer was too full of giant robots punching each other to tease a release date or platform (it'll most likely be exclusive to PC), but, Emperor willing, Dawn of War III will be in our hands sooner rather ...

TiVo is reducing the price of both models of its Bolt DVR by $100 but the company has also aounced it's cutting the free year of service.The new price confirmed by TiVo is $199 for the 500GB (originally $299) and $299 for the 1TB version (originally $399) and the "updated" version will be denoted by a white retail box instead of a black one.The TiVo site has yet to show the updated package/price but if customers want to buy the original package, which includes the year of service, it is still on sale at TiVo as we write. Juan Garzón/CNET Meanwhile the new package is available at Best Buy, though it's confusingly listed alongside the old version as ZatzN...

Tablets with detachable keyboards are growing in popularity. CNET Tablets as a whole have lost much of their appeal, but the ones that come with detachable keyboards are catching on with consumers. For the first quarter of 2016, overall worldwide tablet shipments fell to 39.6 million, a 14.7 percent drop from the same period a year ago, according to preliminary data released Thursday by IDC. The research firm pied the decline on traditional first-quarter slumps but also a lack of interest on the part of customers. Traditional tablets, or slates as IDC dubs them, accounted for 87.6 percent of all tablet shipments. But tablets that come with detachable keyboards upped their game with shipments...

Enlarge ImageAdobe adds direct support for Box and OneDrive. Notice anything missing? Adobe A little over a year ago Adobe launched its Document Cloud service, the company's comprehensive service for minding the gap between...

We aren't buying enough new iPhones.That's why Apple is expected to tell investors something it's never had to say before during its quarterly eaings call: iPhone sales likely dropped for the first time since the game-changing device went on sale in 2007.That drop isn't a surprise to those who've been listening. Apple CEO Tim Cook and his team in January predicted a slide in total revenue and cautioned that iPhone sales would see their first-ever slump in the three months ended in March. The company reports fiscal second-quarter results Tuesday.Analysts think iPhone shipments tumbled nearly 20 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Analysts, on average, expect Apple to sell about 51 milli...

If you're not a Beyonce fan, HBO subscriber or a milleial, you might not know what Beyonce and lemonade have to do with each other. Fret not, fellow human. No one really knows.Over the weekend Beyonce dropped a trailer for "Lemonade," an hour-long special that will debut worldwide on HBO this Saturday, April 23 at 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT. Is Beyonce about to start shilling refreshing beverages the way Diddy sweats Ciroc? Probably not. However, with an upcoming tour and no release date for a new album in sight, everyone's expecting "Lemonade" to provide some answers to what's next from Beyonce. (Like a clever, long-ruing inside joke on "Arrested Development," hints of lemons have been sprinkled ...

The first Doom game, released way back in 1993, introduced some of the most iconic weapons in the history of the first-person shooter genre, like the Chaingun, the Plasma Rifle and the chainsaw. They were so fun to use they set a new standard for players who enjoy carving up their opponents into tiny, bite-size chunks.However, they pale in comparison with the awesome power of the BFG 9000. This massive weapon could obliterate your enemies with heat-seeking balls of deadly plasma and all you had to do was stand in front of them and pull the trigger. It's the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie of killing machines. You just set it, forget it and watch your enemies get beheaded. Now that a new Doom game ...

Marvel "I've been hoping not to die before May 6," I told my aunt last year. "Not die or go blind or deaf," she immediately said. Yeah...we're a little invested. Some of the Marvel sequels have been letdowns -- "Thor: The Dark Elves Are Romulans" comes to mind -- but the Captain America movies went from good to great. Can that streak continue? Please?Sharp action isn't enough. "The Winter Soldier" carried on Steve Rogers as a person: the same scrappy little guy undeeath, but affected by his experiences. "Civil War" is packing in an awful lot of characters (and that group showdown looks a little silly, there wasn't a better way to settle this than jogging straight at each other?). The trailer...

Ubisoft's third-person shooter The Division welcomed its first major update today, introducing the game's first raid-like Incursion, as well as more gear, a loot-trading system, weekly missions, and more.The Division's servers were offline this moing to prepare for the update, but have now retued to operation. The update is around 4.9 GB on PlayStation 4 and should be about the same on Xbox One and PC.You can see everything that's new with The Division's 1.1 patch through the changelog below, while some key features are shown and spelled out in the image above. Ubisoft...

[embedded content] The new trailer for the Harry Potter prequel/spin-off "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is here, and if you weren't on board the hype train already then get ready to buy tickets and check luggage. Starring Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything", "Jupiter Ascending") as Newt Scamander, the film follows the young British wizard's arrival in 1920s New York after his expulsion from a certain famous school of witchcraft and wizardry in Scotland.The new trailer doesn't offer a whole lot more information than the first one, which landed in December 2015, but it does provide some tantalising glimpses of the wizarding world of 1920s New York, a remarkably spacious brief...

With Gear VR, Samsung was one of the first companies to get its foot in the virtual reality door. Now, it looks like the South Korean electronics giant is experimenting with augmented reality.Samsung has received a patent for "smart" contact lenses, which it originally filed in September 2014. The lenses will house a camera, movement sensors, a transmitter and a display unit, according to Softpedia.The eyepieces will work in conjunction with a smartphone, with commands made through the lenses by blinking, then sent to the paired phone for processing. Photos and videos can also be sent from a smartphone for viewing through the lenses.Virtual reality, which transports the user to a new world, ...

Enlarge Image Viewstock/Corbis With Gear VR, Samsung was one of the first companies to get its foot in the virtual reality door. Now, it looks like the South Korean electronics giant is experimenting with augmented reality...

The Xbox One's $50 price cut will come to an end on April 30, it has been confirmed. Fine-print on Xbox.com reveals the end-date. The price cut, which brings the base Xbox One model down to $300 which is $50 below the starting price of the PlayStation 4, went into effect on March 20.The price cut, which applies to all Xbox One models and bundles, had been described from the start as temporary. Microsoft Microsoft has been promot...

Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment's time-bending action game Quantum Break is coming out tomorrow (April 5) and now, the title's list of achievements has emerged.Quantum Break will offer 42 achievements worth a total Gamerscore of 1,000, according to the list published on Xbox Achievements. Players will ea the achievements for using the game's time-manipulation powers (deflect 200 bullets with the Time Shield, for example), and will also be rewarded for completing the game at its three different difficulty sliders: Easy, Normal and Hard. Remedy Entertainment In addition to the 20 achievements listed below, a further 22 story-focused achievements, many of which contain spoilers, can be...